Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
